`This American Life' gets smart on two-CD set

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: June 26, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

LIES, SISSIES, AND FIASCOES: The Best of "This American Life" Rhino, two-CD set, $16.97

If you try to explain the radio show "This American Life" to the uninitiated, you may find yourself flailing. Produced by the public radio station WBEZ in Chicago (and aired in Boston on WBUR-FM, 90.9, WGBH-FM, 89.7, and WBUR-AM, 1240), the show is consistent, well executed, and hard to sum up. Part of the beauty of the CD compilation "Lies, Sissies, and Fiascoes: The Best of `This American Life' " is that it gives the faithful a tool for converting the agnostic.

In the CD liner notes, Ira Glass makes an ...

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